Vol 3 Land Resource Inventory Report - Department of Environment ...

FRA 2010 – Country Report, Fiji
2.3 Analysis and processing of national data.
2.3.1 Calibration
Classes (1000 ha) Tenure Areas
Closed Forest 583.631
Open Forest 218.593
Plantation 127.854
Coconut 13.282
Non Forest 640.583
Inland Water 1.045
Total 1,584.988
Calibrating the dataset:
Calibrated Forest
Areas
(B)
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Difference
(C) (B-A)
Classes (1000 ha)
Tenure Areas
(A)
Closed Forest 583.631 587.791 4.160
Open Forest 218.59 362.198 143.608
Plantation 127.854 162.663 34.809
Coconut 13.282 28.669 15.388
Non Forest 640.583 665.387 24.804
Inland Water 1.045 20.292 19.248
Total 1,584.988 1827.000 242.014
Comments:
Tenure Area (A): Area calculated from the GIS Forest Layers
Calibrated Area (B): Total Calibrated Forest Area from T1
Difference (C), (B-A): This difference are added to the Native land areas to bring it up to
around 85% of total land area and also to match the forest areas in T1 and T2.
Calibrated dataset:
Classes Freehold Native State Total
Closed 31.958 528.10 27.737 587.795
Open 23.172 326.268 12.756 362.196
Plantation 10.531 135.619 16.510 162.66
Coconut 4.537 23.908 0.228 28.673
Non Forest 108.448 513.444 43.496 665.388
Inland Water 0.236 19.97 0.086 20.292
Total 178.882 1,547.309 100.814 1,827
% 10% 85% 6%
Increases are done only for the Native forest area.